Boat Full of Men Drag Shark Behind Vessel Until Dead

A horrifying video posted to social media that shows a shark tied to the back of a boat in Florida being dragged at high speed and thus effectively put to death in the most inhumane way possible has elicited mass outrage; but not from the usual suspects.

“This is just really sick, one of the most horrific things I have seen in 50 years of professional sport fishing,” he remarked this week to Orlando station WESH. “I don’t know if this is criminal, but it would seem to me that this is animal cruelty and they should be prosecuted,” he added.

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In fact, Quartiano happens to be the individual who helped bring this video to the public’s attention. In a statement to Miami station WFOR, he explained that one of his Instagram groupies recently sent him the sick footage in an attempt to garner his praise.

“They said, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool — look what we did to the shark,’ and I go, ‘Are you kidding me man?’ and that’s when I instantly reposted it and that’s when all the feedback started coming out,” he recalled. “All the people started going crazy and it went viral.”

The sick punk who sent him the clip also reportedly sent him a picture of the dead shark’s mangled body being held up like a trophy.